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We are grateful for the support of our Principal sponsors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. We are also grateful for the support of our Academic sponsors: Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Burroughs Wellcome Fund and McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health (MRC). As always, Nature carries sole responsibility for all editorial content.

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Principal sponsors:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Partners for Innovation, Discovery, Life

Uniquely authorized by the United States Congress to support the life-saving research mission of the National Institutes of Health, the Foundation for NIH is a leader in the creation of specially configured, high-impact, public-private partnerships in biomedical research.

Some research initiatives require speed and immediate resources and, because of their complexity and scale, can be beyond the capacity of any single sector, much less any single institution. Foundation public-private partnerships meet these special needs. Each is unique, but all point to the special place cross-sectoral partnerships occupy in biomedical research.

Learn more at: www.fnih.org

The Wellcome Trust and global health research

The Wellcome Trust is the largest charity in the UK and the second largest medical research charity in the world. It funds innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally, spending around £500 million each year to support the brightest scientists with the best ideas.

We devote a significant proportion of our funds to research conducted outside the UK and cover a broad range of activities that support global health research, with a particular emphasis on:

research in infectious diseases, including tropical and neglected infectious disease, animal health, zoonoses and emerging infections
public health, including communicable and non-communicable diseases

We provide support for the best people and research teams so that, over time, we can help to develop a critical mass in strategically important areas of the biomedical sciences and combat health problems of regional or global importance.

To find out more about our international activities, please see www.wellcome.ac.uk/globalhealth.